@DJAtomika "System, full environment scan. Optics, visual scan, identify key facilities."The initial scan results were, without a doubt, less than ideal. The plating around the airlock chamber was heavy enough to block a wider ranged scan but inside the compartment there was a distinct lack of anything. Apart from a few slight biological traces, which were quickly dying off due to the exposure to vacuum, the room seemed as though it had been thoroughly cleared out well before the party had arrived. Most likely by the
Lone Star's original crew.
As the beam played over the walls it quickly noted over a dozen storage lockers lining each of the airlock's walls. All apart from one hung open, their contents missing, presumably also removed purposefully many years before. The remaining locker seemed to have been sealed, the edges of its frame melted and blistered.
The only other entrance from the chamber was another airlock hatch set into the opposite wall from the external one through which the party were now beginning to board. The scan showed the door had been mechanically locked down, heavy bars within the walls clamping it closed to prevent any loss of atmosphere due to the detected hull breach. With a beep the scanner lit up a panel beside the hatch which seemed to be some sort of manual override, but overriding what the scanner couldn't tell.
With the shuttle now secured to the larger vessel Felix's job had become a whole lot easier, but with the short-range scanner now pinging with an alarming regularity as new asteroid fragments were showing up in close proximity he didn't have time to relax. Thumbing open the external commlink he raised as many of his passengers as he could, "Hate to break this to you guys but if you don't get a move on I'm gonna have to blow this popsicle stand with or without you."
Almost as if on cue a small pebble tapped against the viewport in front of the pilot, leaving a small but very definite scratch in his otherwise unspoilt panorama. "And I mean like right now!"
